The likeness of the child to the mother is already noticeable.
Buffon speaks of dwarfs 24, 21, and 18 inches high, and mentions one individual, aged thirty-seven, only 16 inches tall, whom he considers the smallest person on record.

Virey in 1818 speaks of an English child of eight or nine who was but 18 inches tall.

It had the intelligence of a child of three or four; its dentition was delayed until it was two years old and it did not walk until four.

The parents of this child were of ordinary stature.
At the "Cosmorama" in Regent Street in 1848 there was a Dutch boy of ten exhibited.

He was said to be the son of an apothecary and at the time of his birth weighed nine pounds.